Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude 39.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Green Lake

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Millet
Sorghum
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.